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Qwen3.5 40B fine-tunes add uncensored variants
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Qwen3.5 40B fine-tunes add uncensored variants

DavidAU is shipping a 40B dense Qwen3.5 expansion tuned on Claude Opus reasoning data, with three flavors in play: regular, Heretic uncensored, and RoughHouse. The repos also include examples and GGUF quants, so this is aimed squarely at local-LLM users who want stronger reasoning plus easy self-hosting.

// ANALYSIS

This feels less like a polished commercial launch and more like a fast-moving model shop, but the recipe is compelling: scale Qwen3.5 up, distill Claude-style reasoning into it, and hand the community local-friendly quants.

  • The core technical hook is a 40B dense Qwen3.5 variant with 96 layers and 1275 tensors, tuned on Claude 4.6 Opus reasoning data via Unsloth.
  • The variant split matters: regular for general use, Heretic for uncensored output, and RoughHouse for a wilder creative mode. That makes the release more about behavior control than raw benchmark chasing.
  • GGUF availability is the practical win here, because it puts the model in reach of people running llama.cpp-style stacks rather than only GPU-heavy servers.
  • The model card hints at long-context and variable-length reasoning, which is exactly the kind of setup local power users want for writing, roleplay, and code-adjacent tasks.
  • The naming is chaotic, but the collection strategy is coherent: this looks like a repeatable tuning pipeline across the Qwen3.5 family, not a one-off experiment.
// TAGS
davidau-qwen3.5-40b-claude-4.5-opus-high-reasoning-thinkingqwen3.5-40bllmreasoningfine-tuningopen-weightsself-hosted

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69d ago

2026-03-19

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69d ago

2026-03-19

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